Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:32:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: X Philius <xphilius@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount an extended DOS partition Message-ID: <20011017113208.D91685@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20011017162301.8385.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011017162301.8385.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 17), X Philius said: > I hasve a tri-boot machine (Win98, Win2K and FreeBSD), and I would > like to use the same extended partition for files, sharing it between > all three OS's. I have successfully mounted a primary DOS partition > using the mount_msdos command, but I get an error when I try to mount > an extended partition (mount_msdos: /dev/ad2s2: Invalid argument). Is > there another command I can use, or is this not possible? Thanks in > advance. You don't want to mount the extended partition itself; you want to mount the logical partition inside it. They start at s5, so try /dev/ad2s5 first. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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